Bible Dictionaries
Effete

Webster's Dictionary

(a.) No longer capable of producing young, as an animal, or fruit, as the earth; hence, worn out with age; exhausted of energy; incapable of efficient action; no longer productive; barren; sterile.

Bibliography Information
Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Effete'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​e/effete.html. 1828.